My 63rd extension is a small utility that let’s you do the seemingly impossible - open a model made in an more recent SketchUp version. Hopefully this will be especially useful for the hobby community which uses the 2018 format in the web version but is limited to Make 2017 as desktop version. …

only supported by 64 bit Windows is circled two post above yours… your profile says your on a mac… are you trying from bootcamp? john

That was my fault, I suggested it, not even thinking that it was Windows only. It installs on Mac perfectly well, and then for me calls a shell script under Parallels. It was only Catalina file permissions that stopped it working for me. But, not everyone on Mac has Windows 10 running at the same t…

Hello. Faced with this error, can you tell me how to fix it? The system is 64-bit. SU 2019. [Скриншот 31-05-2022 155649]

Just a guess, but your User-name in Windows does not follow the recommended format [ASCII character letters and numbers only] - seems to be in Cyrillic ? Windows / Ruby / VBS can trip up on this kind of thing…

Why o why did i not find this years ago :innocent: This is a blessing :slight_smile: thanx a bundle @eneroth3 ! Likewise, @ work SUP2021 and @ home SU2017.

Hello, thank you for this very usefull extension ! I there any planned update to support 2022 sketchup files ? Bests, [Screenshot_1]

It was updated to support 2021, and that should make it work with 2022 as well.

FYI: With the 2021 release the SKP file format was overhauled to make it versionless. So if the user has SketchUp 2021 (or higher) they no longer need such an extension as SketchUp can now natively open model files created with any older or newer SketchUp version. When the user saves a model that …

[Screenshot_2] I do have the latest version, but its still not working. I’m running Sktechup Make 2017 on Windows 11 64bits.

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eneroth3 August 4, 2022, 4:14pm 58

I’ve finally had the time to update the extension! Now 2022 and (hopefully) all other versions released in a near future should be supported.

Sorry for the delay.

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